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Isibongo · isiNdebele (Northern Ndebele)

Moyo

Also spelled Nhliziyo.

  • PeopleamaNdebele (Matabeleland)
  • Grouping Heart totem; Lozwi/Rozvi and Kalanga lines
  • Surnames recorded Moyo
  • Places recorded Matabeleland, Midlands, Zimbabwe-wide
  • Branch Matabeleland

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This clan has a praise. It is not on this page yet, and that is our doing, not anything about your family or the praise itself. If the people at home still say it, you can put the true one here.

Why It Is Not Here Yet

The rendering that was read: totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Moyo; opening lines)

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About This Record

What Was Written Down

Bhebe's list (via Ndlovu-Gatsheni) has some Moyos rendering their totem as Nhliziyo. Sokhela's column gives Moyo as an example of a body-part totem among the Kalanga/Lozwi and counts the Moyos among the local-origin people who are today fully Ndebele. The Sotho column also records Sotho families adopting Moyo. totems.co.zw's praise names the Mambo of the Lozwi and a role in seating Mzilikazi. Recorded from the sources named on this entry; the wording here is Sibaya's own.

Families Tell This Differently

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Where This Comes From

Written down by
  • Mzala Tom, The Sotho people of Zimbabwe (Part 2) (Sunday News; cites Joseph Mujere and Pathisa Nyathi's Babirwa history), 2022-10-16, Zimpapers (Sunday News / heraldonline.co.zw) — https://www.heraldonline.co.zw/the-sotho-people-of-zimbabwe-part-2/
  • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Who Ruled by the Spear? Rethinking the Form of Governance in the Ndebele State (African Studies Quarterly 10(2-3)), 2008, University of Florida Center for African Studies — https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/168/Ndlovu-Gatsheni-Vol10Issue23.pdf
  • Mloyiswayizizwe Sokhela, Reconstruction of the Kalanga history welcome but beware of distortions! (opinion column, Bulawayo24, reprinted on ka…, 2012-05-09, Bulawayo24 / kalanga.org — https://kalanga.org/blogs/reconstruction-of-the-kalanga-history-welcome-but-beware-of-distortions/
  • totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Moyo)
  • totems.co.zw (Zimbabwean community heritage site, uncredited), totems.co.zw - Ndebele Totems category (about thirty entries: Ngwenya, Khumalo, Nyoni, Dlamini, Mthunzi, Gumbo, Mnkan…, 2023-2025 (post dates), totems.co.zw — https://totems.co.zw/category/ndebele-totems/ (Moyo; opening lines)

Recorded Alongside

  • Bhebhe Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Dlamini Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Dlodlo Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Dube Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Gumbo Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).
  • Gumede Also recorded among the amaNdebele (Matabeleland).

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